The current number of the operating nuclear power units in the world is equal to 444. These data are presented in the PRIS database supported by the IAEA.
Another 51 units have the status of the being built one.
Since the beginning of 2021, three units have been connected to the grid - "Kakrapar-3" (India), KANUPP-2 (Pakistan) and "Tianwan-6" (China).
The construction was started on two new units - "Akkuyu-3" (Turkey) and "Changjiang-3" (China).
One unit was permanently shutdown - "Indian Point-3" (USA).
On March 22, 2021, VVER-1200 reactor-enabled Unit 6 was commissioned at the Leningrad NPP. Andrey Petrov, Director General of Rosenergoatom (part of the Electric Power Division of ROSATOM), signed the corresponding order.
Vladimir Kriventsev
The International Atomic Energy Agency brings together the fast reactor and related fuel cycle community and countries and the wider public interested in these technologies by organising the International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles: Sustainable Clean Energy for the Future or FR21.
Victor Murogov
This critical analysis of the history, state, and prospects of development of modern nuclear technologies shows that nuclear energy market has practically monopolized the design and construction of only one type of reactors (95% of NPPs under construction use pressurized water reactors), which necessitates training of focused specialists involved in the construction and operation of those nuclear power plants.
